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 Sunday, November 17 - Defying Expectations: The Story of a Jewish Woman Who Took on the Russian Emp
(Society Meetings – Hybrid -- In-Person AND Zoom)
Time: 1:30 pm EST
This hybrid event is free for members of JGSGW. Nonmembers may register (Add to Cart) to attend for a fee of $5. Attend In-Person or via Zoom. Be there In-Person for snacks and schmoozing OR attend on Zoom from wherever you are.
Location: Beth El Hebrew Congregation, 3830 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA -- or on Zoom
Program: This program is about one woman (the speaker's 5th great grandmother), her hundreds of pages of petitions and appeals tell her perspective of how Jewish families dealt with mandatory conscription of their young children, how conscription caused strife within the Jewish community and formed a hierarchy (she felt she wasn't part of the cool kids' clique), and how relatively simple Jewish families were able to generate significant amounts of documentation in the mid-1800s.
Chava Lefand (1797-1884) lived in a time when we'd expect a woman to not be well-represented in documentation. And in fact, looking at traditional genealogical documents gives little information about Chava and the life she lived. But Chava's story shows how much can be learned by looking at non-traditional documentation to learn about an individual and the context in which they lived. Chava had already lost two children to mandatory conscription into the Russian Empire, and she refused to lose another. The widowed mother filed a series of petitions throughout the 1850s which went as high as two Czars and the Governing Senate (the Russian Empire's Supreme Court equivalent). In doing this, she generated a genealogical gold mine (telling of secret marriages and where various relatives were living or hiding from the draft) and gave her perspective on family and community gossip and conflict.
Speaker: Lara Diamond has been researching her family for more than 25 years, since she was too young to have a driver's license and had to rely on her mother as a chauffeur. She has traced all branches of her family back to Europe and most multiple generations back in Europe using Russian Empire-era and Austria-Hungarian Empire records. Most of her research is in modern-day Ukraine, with a smattering of Belarus and Poland. Lara is president of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland, leads JewishGen's Subcarpathian SIG, is on Ukraine SIG's board of directors, and runs several town-focused projects to collect documentation to assist all those researching ancestors from common towns. She blogs about her mostly Eastern European research http://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com
Last Updated: 16 October 2024 [Located in Category: Guest Registration (Meetings)]
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